How to config tomcat like this in IDEA?

问题

When I use the eclipse + tomcat, I can set "Use Tomcat installation" as the deployment location. I want ask whether it's possbile to config it in IDEA.

回答1:

If you configure your Tomcat application server like shown in the screenshot, IDEA will use the Tomcat binaries from "D:\Programme\apache-tomcat-8.0.15\bin" and the Tomcat configuration from "D:\catalina-base-idea\conf".

When you run "yourWebApp", IDEA will create a directory structure in the folder "\system\tomcat". This is the place where your application will be deployed to.

Update / another way for deploying

If you're familiar with maven, you can use the tomcat7-maven-plugin

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <!-- Tomcat 8 , too -->
    <version>2.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <server>tomcat8-local</server>
        <url>http://localhost:8080/manager/text</url>
        <path>/doormanP0</path>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30295466/how-to-config-tomcat-like-this-in-idea